As I said, in her story, it works because it's wrong for both of them, and Spike still mourns Buffy actually, yet he gives way.
I wouldn't enjoy a sexy Spawn or a happy Spawn...but elisi' story makes sense precisely because it happens in an alternative season 6 (Dawn is only 15 and had a crush on Spike a few months before, she's part of Buffy, the only thing left...). It's a disturbing and depressing "what if". You want to enter the story and try to hammer some sense into Spike, to put him back on the salvation road, but you can't stop reading it and you know it's gonna end badly.
Of course as usual with fan fiction, I actually prefer what we saw on screen story-wise. That's probably why my favourite fanfic are usually post-series.
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Date: 2006-05-05 04:58 pm (UTC)I wouldn't enjoy a sexy Spawn or a happy Spawn...but elisi' story makes sense precisely because it happens in an alternative season 6 (Dawn is only 15 and had a crush on Spike a few months before, she's part of Buffy, the only thing left...). It's a disturbing and depressing "what if". You want to enter the story and try to hammer some sense into Spike, to put him back on the salvation road, but you can't stop reading it and you know it's gonna end badly.
Of course as usual with fan fiction, I actually prefer what we saw on screen story-wise. That's probably why my favourite fanfic are usually post-series.